NR Daily: A Hero's Daughter

Oslo — On January 9, 2009, Grace Gao woke up with a strange feeling. She sensed that someone was going on a long journey. Yet no one in the apartment was packing. Everything was normal — as normal as it ever was. Her dad was holding her brother tightly, however. Then he held her and her mom tightly. So she knew: It was they — mother, daughter, and son — who were going on a long journey. On that day, they escaped China. First they went by motorbike. Then they hid in the luggage hold of a bus. Eventually, they reached Thailand. From there, they went to America. Grace was 15 years old. She had been through unspeakable hell. In America, the family learned English from scratch ...

June 21 2017

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